Examples of 'detain him' in a sentence

Meaning of "detain him"

Detain him - To hold someone in custody or to prevent them from leaving a certain place. Usually, this phrase is used by authorities or law enforcement when they need to temporarily restrict a person's freedom of movement

How to use "detain him" in a sentence

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detain him
Detain him for extreme torture later.
Request permission to detain him at this time.
Detain him and let him stew.
They tried to detain him and he resisted.
I will have campus security detain him.
I will detain him until you return.
Perhaps his business will detain him.
I will detain him here as long as possible.
We do not have grounds to detain him anyway.
I suggest to detain him indefinitely for further observation.
Big fight if we try and detain him.
We can not detain him indefinitely.
Police observe this and detain him.
Detain him till somebody can pick up him.
We will make a plan to detain him at a later time.

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Only detain him as a last resort.
This was enough to detain him in custody.
Detain him and get him out of here.
Secret service can detain him on counterfeiting charges.
Detain him by any means necessary.
If you plan to detain him anywhere.
Detain him in the waiting room.
They were able to detain him after a brief struggle.
Detain him now if you have to.
They will not detain him.
Enough to detain him on probable cause.
I had the right to detain him.
I will detain him while we search his farm.
These are not the right conditions to detain him.
Nor detain him without evidence.
I would be remiss if we did not detain him.
We do not detain him even if we can.
We have every right to detain him.
But detain him for now.
There was not enough to detain him.
We need to detain him as soon as possible.
The militia wanted to detain him.
Detain him for questioning anyway.
We just had no reason to detain him.
Detain him and stop patrolling.
Maybe they can detain him.
Detain him on the drug charges.
Audience members attempted to detain him.
Detain him for hours.
The police will detain him.
Detain him from now.
He managed to tackle and detain him.
We must detain him and execute him in your honor.
The police did not detain him.
Will detain him there.

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They can detain them for hours
Detain him for extreme torture later
We are just gonna detain you for a while
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